Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Touch of Banana Peel. Rowlandson first exhibited a drawing when he was only 18, and soon both Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West were praising him. But serious painting on a large scale never suited the Rowlandson temperament. A ?7,000 legacy from an aunt gave him a taste for high living, and he wandered through Europe and England, drinking, talking, gambling-and drawing. He illustrated a dozen books including Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. His work became so popular that a new industry arose in London: producing fake Rowlandsons...
...Family Friend Joshua Logan cast her in her first movie. Tall Story, and also in her first Broadway play, There Was a Little Girl. The first reviews made her an actress forever. "The Boston critics said I was fragile," she remembers. "I'm strong as an ox. They said I was coltish, febrile, virginal, translucent-me! I realized I had created something that moved an audience...
...auditorium this year, it is bringing such cultural attractions as the Indianapolis Symphony and sharing them with hundreds of public school children. Culver has the oldest credit course in dramatics of any U.S. secondary school, has sent to Broadway such bright lights as Playwright William Inge, Director Joshua Logan and Monologuist Hal Holbrook...
Stowaways Inside. Chief source of U.S. concern about stowaway "exobiota" (extraterrestrial life) is famed Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, 32, of Stanford. Lederberg is immensely nappy that the "blacksmiths" who fashion space hardware are still too clumsy to send manned expeditions to Mars or Venus. Crews that return from a foreign planet, says he, will be potential dangers to all life on earth. Though their ship may be sterilized inside and outside before re-entering the earth's atmosphere, it will be impossible to sterilize the men themselves. Like even the healthiest humans, the space travelers will...
UNIVERSITY: Joshua Logan, who a lot of money from a good musical based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, has tried to do the same thing in Hollywood and has failed--at least, aesthetically. FANNY is genuine four handkerchief family-style mediocre entertainment- starring everyone that should appear in a Hollywood musical about foreigners: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Bucholz and Maurice Chevalier. Afternoons and evenings...